Category Archives: Entertainment

Video games come of age, or is this the opportunity for a second childhood?

The good news is that I cast about as well as I write; tortured, circuitous, and unnecessarily lengthy. The bad news is I stumbled onto another time wasting pastime that had me cursing and giggling uncontrollably.

A devout follower of the Church of Monday Night Football, and this being the first services of the season, my pre-game warmup routine was interrupted by the fellows that invented the tele-prompter wizardry.

Did you know them same lads invented a fly fishing game?

Brookie

It’s not bad. Casting is nightmarish, but quickly mastered once you remember the 10Am-2PM stroke of your youth. You have an ample fly assortment, and it even keeps count of the flies snapped off due to your hammy handed  strikes.

You can zoom to the water to observe insects, and then match the hatch. Nymphs and dries are available as are weighted nymphs and splitshot attached to your leader.

The demo is a 5MB download that allows you to fish a couple of the six rivers present, it runs under Windows XP just fine, and is virus free. The demo will end after each fish caught, just fire it again to catch another fish. Perfect cubicle fodder during lunch.

Casting long distances is a bloody Herculean effort, but roll casts and mending line are available to ease the fishing somewhat. I was hard pressed to cast beyond 50 feet, but did manage a 64 foot spaghetti cast that yielded a 16″ Brookie.

Mindless fun, liable to amuse you greatly – more importantly, it gives you the line you’ve lusted after for years, “Daddy will surrender the computer after the Caddis hatch is over, now go do your homework.”

Never happen? The holidays are fast approaching and you think you’ll be able to resist the new fishing rod controller for the Wii? More likely you’ll buy it for the kids…then fight them for it.

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Real Angling Visionaries, a title not used lightly in this gathering

Visionary Comix, get your’s todayIt’s time we recognize a true visionary, or perhaps he’s just the only fellow glib enough to overcome the wife’s protests. Talk about ganging up on Ma…incorporating a water slide, trout fishery, swimming pool, and BBQ pit.

You can hear the kiddies now, “C’mon Ma, can we? Huh, can we?” (with Poppa sporting an innocent yet very evil grin.) I think this fellow has set the bar higher than merely the traditional “can I buy this new rod without her knowing” gambit.

I can’t help but think of the vindictive side of the operation, if the trout refused my fly more than once, I would retaliate with my portly pink frame landing in their lap.

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Let’s get this straight

San Mateo Joe,

Will I rever the slaw dog like Wally TC does?

tellfriends.jpgSlaw Dog’s are an affront to the human race. Why any rational human would desecrate an intestine stuffed with lips, beaks, jowels, and entrails – with cole slaw? The real indignity is that they are trying to hide the crime with chili and mustard.

I tried to fob these off on my girlfriend as a french delicacy, I called them “Le Canine Forested”, and she about decorated me with a rolling pin.

Nope, TC is all alone on that one.

Will I join forces with TC in ridding the world of the Nestle Menace?

Let’s say I have pounded a Nestle’s Crunchbar on more than one occasion, but if TC shows me all of his secret fishing spots, I could be born-again. Us free-writers is mercenary to the core, shameless in fact.

Will I be battling with TC in the bikini wars?

Hell yes, and if he so much as blinks he’s a goner. TC has both morals and scruples, I lack both. If it meant more pageviews than he gets, I’ll show nekkid trout too.

Why are their no pictures of my Wonderdog?

That’s the simplest question of all, my dog was a gift from my gal, she mistakenly got me a medium dun Queensland Heeler. Now I have a hairless Heeler that has to stay indoors all the time, too damn cold for him outside. He don’t mind much, except around Thanksgiving, I guess that turkey looks like a relative….

Will your ass shrink if you comment lots?

Hell no. But a taut and shapely rear is desirable only if you are sub-30, and have $8000 or more in credit card debt. This crowd is neither, and the bikini question gave you away…you own your own home, have a good woman of many years by your side, and are hoping like hell she don’t look over your shoulder while you live vicariously through my Bikini models, n’est pas?

Thanks for the opportunity to beard TC. Come again, and often.

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Welcome to Singlebarbed

Welcome to Singlebarbed. Whose words are you reading?

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Humor is King, which is why you shouldn’t take me too seriously, unless of course I’m writing on a topic that suggests you should, and it’s possible you won’t know the difference. Sometimes it’s not easy to be you.

Sit back, relax, enjoy — and comment your ass off.

Singlebarbed.